Re: [gentoo-dev] tcpdump and telnet on the liveCDs

Re: [gentoo-dev] tcpdump and telnet on the liveCDs

[Abhishek Amit]

On 00:14 Mon 17 Mar     , Marco Mascherpa wrote:
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> hi everyone,
> last week i was installing Gentoo on a brand new machine at work and i noticed
> againg that tcpdump and the telnet client are not available in the liveCD's
> environment. Why aren't they included? Is it about some policy or it's just
> nobody asked them yet?
> 
> I think tcpdump in particular should be added, sometimes it's necessary to
> check out network stuff at a lower level; the telnet client would be very
> useful too, none ever thinks to use it to connect to remote shells, but
> sometimes it can be very useful to check out services and stuff.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
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It's almost funny that telnet isn't included, when ssh is. If you need
to connect to remotre shells you can ssh to them. But like you said it
cant be used to connect to certain services. 


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[gentoo-dev] tcpdump and telnet on the liveCDs

[Marco Mascherpa]

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hi everyone,
last week i was installing Gentoo on a brand new machine at work and i noticed 
againg that tcpdump and the telnet client are not available in the liveCD's 
environment. Why aren't they included? Is it about some policy or it's just 
nobody asked them yet?

I think tcpdump in particular should be added, sometimes it's necessary to 
check out network stuff at a lower level; the telnet client would be very 
useful too, none ever thinks to use it to connect to remote shells, but 
sometimes it can be very useful to check out services and stuff.

What do you think?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] tcpdump and telnet on the liveCDs

[Dhruba Bandopadhyay]

On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 23:14, Marco Mascherpa wrote:
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> hi everyone,
> last week i was installing Gentoo on a brand new machine at work and i noticed 
> againg that tcpdump and the telnet client are not available in the liveCD's 
> environment. Why aren't they included? Is it about some policy or it's just 
> nobody asked them yet?
> 
> I think tcpdump in particular should be added, sometimes it's necessary to 
> check out network stuff at a lower level; the telnet client would be very 
> useful too, none ever thinks to use it to connect to remote shells, but 
> sometimes it can be very useful to check out services and stuff.
> 
> What do you think?

I can't speak about inclusion in gentoo but certainly those two items
are available to emerge if you need them.

Best wishes.


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